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Marie Borremans: What our grandparents said and we will/won’t say to our children

By Marie Borremans, translated by Laura Vroomen
25 March 2021 1 min. reading time Young Voices on Slavery

Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors bring an artefact to life from the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Marie Borremans wrote a poem inspired by a letter from Pieter Mortamer, commander in Luanda, addressed to Johan Maurits, the then governor-general of Dutch Brazil. In this letter, written on 31 October 1642, Mortamer advises on high-level diplomatic negotiations with the Congolese king.

Marie A04b 1454 211 A letter from Pieter Mortamer, commander in Luanda, addressed to Johan Maurits, the then governor-general of Dutch Brazil.
© Royal Collections, The Hague

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This text was written during a residency at Flemish-Dutch cultural organisation Huis deBuren in association with the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation.

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Marie Borremans

Marie is studying Word and Media at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp while also working as an investigative journalist. She likes to create stories that explore the boundaries between reality and fiction, prose and poetry, words and sound. She has published in Das Mag’s 2019 Sampler and was the runner-up in the writing competition Write Now! As deBuren’s writer-in-residence in Paris in 2020, she made 1 km, a multimedia project in which she addressed the theme of freedom through words, image and audio.

photo © Marianne Hommersom

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